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There was an easter egg in Windows 95 for clouds.mid.[1] You had to create a folder and rename it a few times, and then it would play the song[2]. Even hearing

There was an easter egg in Windows 95 for clouds.mid.[1] You had to create a folder and rename it a few times, and then it would play the song[2]. Even hearing it now takes me back to a simpler time... [1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69883/musical-easter-egg-hidden-windows-95 https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69883/musical-easter-egg... [2] https://soundcloud.com/brianorr/clouds https://soundcloud.com/brianorr/clouds

mrleinad 5y ago
I miss those good times when developers were given freedom to do things like these.
- deleted 5y ago
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- Eikon 5y ago
  Except that it increases software complexity, possibly bugs as well as security vulnerabilities. I definitely don’t won’t this kind of “features” in software I use.
  - floam 5y ago
    I don't won't you
    - savolai 5y ago
      I really appreciate the wuality of discussion here. Every time.
  - hansel_der 5y ago
    sad story bro
  - neuronic 5y ago
    Yep worked for a pretty large company and they had a (capable), high ranking dev guy who was prone to add easter eggs in the UI. Konami code would cause something to fly across the screen etc. The live product was taken down twice due to these easter eggs. There are no more easter eggs.
    - Aeolun 5y ago
      Sad times. If you never accidentally trigger these then who cares…
    - stavros 5y ago
      How did the eggs cause the product to go down?
  - black3r 5y ago
    I miss the good times when security wasn't an important thing to always keep in mind because there weren't that many hackers and script kiddies.
  - mhd 5y ago
    Happy developers are engaged and make fewer errors.
  - fouric 5y ago
    The amount of complexity, bugs, and security vulnerabilities in modern software is already at a staggering level purely due to non-easter-eggs. Not only will allowing the developers to occasionally have some fun help them to be more engaged (and produce higher-quality software as a result), but a well-implemented easter egg touches a highly localized portion of the system and won't introduce any of the above in the first place.
- CyberRabbi 5y ago
  They weren't given the freedom. They took the freedom.
- drKarl 5y ago
  I think nowadays an easter egg would be a hard sell on a Pull Request... Most likely back then there were absolutely no code reviews...
- mbg721 5y ago
  Life-insurance mainframes never had easter-eggs, did they? This is just a measure of how seriously people rely on software.
  - all2 5y ago
    Wrong. :) My dad worked for a rather large insurance company. One of the hacks printed the user's name, marched it around the border of the terminal (thin client to the mainframe) and then deleted itself before giving the user their prompt back.
    - mbg721 5y ago
      I stand corrected. At least it wasn't the policyholder's name.
  - xattt 5y ago
    I’d love to see if Philips of Zoll integrated any Easter eggs into their AEDs or monitoring equipment. Perhaps get an extra 50 joules of defib by putting in the Konami code on the directional keys.
- tomc1985 5y ago
  You can thank the need to appeal to the 'serious business' people for that
  - bellyfullofbac 5y ago
    Windows XP has no easter eggs because MS wanted to sell it to the US military, and the policy was, no undocumented features. I suppose they could also just document it...
subroutine 5y ago
"Creative Labs Sound Blaster"... ah the nostalgia

mrleinad 5y ago

I miss those good times when developers were given freedom to do things like these.

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Eikon 5y ago
Except that it increases software complexity, possibly bugs as well as security vulnerabilities. I definitely don’t won’t this kind of “features” in software I use.
- floam 5y ago
  I don't won't you
  - savolai 5y ago
    I really appreciate the wuality of discussion here. Every time.
- hansel_der 5y ago
  sad story bro
- neuronic 5y ago
  Yep worked for a pretty large company and they had a (capable), high ranking dev guy who was prone to add easter eggs in the UI. Konami code would cause something to fly across the screen etc. The live product was taken down twice due to these easter eggs. There are no more easter eggs.
  - Aeolun 5y ago
    Sad times. If you never accidentally trigger these then who cares…
  - stavros 5y ago
    How did the eggs cause the product to go down?
- black3r 5y ago
  I miss the good times when security wasn't an important thing to always keep in mind because there weren't that many hackers and script kiddies.
- mhd 5y ago
  Happy developers are engaged and make fewer errors.
- fouric 5y ago
  The amount of complexity, bugs, and security vulnerabilities in modern software is already at a staggering level purely due to non-easter-eggs. Not only will allowing the developers to occasionally have some fun help them to be more engaged (and produce higher-quality software as a result), but a well-implemented easter egg touches a highly localized portion of the system and won't introduce any of the above in the first place.
CyberRabbi 5y ago
They weren't given the freedom. They took the freedom.
drKarl 5y ago
I think nowadays an easter egg would be a hard sell on a Pull Request... Most likely back then there were absolutely no code reviews...
mbg721 5y ago
Life-insurance mainframes never had easter-eggs, did they? This is just a measure of how seriously people rely on software.
- all2 5y ago
  Wrong. :) My dad worked for a rather large insurance company. One of the hacks printed the user's name, marched it around the border of the terminal (thin client to the mainframe) and then deleted itself before giving the user their prompt back.
  - mbg721 5y ago
    I stand corrected. At least it wasn't the policyholder's name.
- xattt 5y ago
  I’d love to see if Philips of Zoll integrated any Easter eggs into their AEDs or monitoring equipment. Perhaps get an extra 50 joules of defib by putting in the Konami code on the directional keys.
tomc1985 5y ago
You can thank the need to appeal to the 'serious business' people for that
- bellyfullofbac 5y ago
  Windows XP has no easter eggs because MS wanted to sell it to the US military, and the policy was, no undocumented features. I suppose they could also just document it...

subroutine 5y ago

"Creative Labs Sound Blaster"... ah the nostalgia